PureHealth Transitional Care at Texas Health Presbyterian

On top of receiving a great overall score, this nursing home also earned an excellent short-term care score, with an A. In our short-term care rating, we attempt to forge a sound measure for rehabilitation. In this process, we look at a nursing home's level of highly-skilled nursing services, including both registered nurses and physical therapy, as well as speech therapy. Fortunately, it appear that this nursing home employs registered nurses. Not all nursing homes employs these types of nurses. However, based on the information this nursing home provided, they do not appear to employ physical therapists. Finally, we considered the number of patients who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 6 percent of this nursing home's residents returned home.

This facility also excelled in the area of nursing, where it received a grade of A. Few nursing homes performed better in this area. Our nursing grade is mostly based on the facility's nurse staffing. This nursing home provides 0.5 hours of nursing care per resident per day. Finally, we also assessed several nursing quality measures and this nursing home excelled in some of these areas. With less than five percent of its residents sustaining pressure ulcers, it performed as well as any facility the country in this category. This is generally a good indicator of quality nursing care. Pressure ulcers can generally be avoided by offering better nursing care, such as having a protocol of moving residents even once per day.

Turning our third area, this facility received a strong long-term care grade. In fact, it received a grade of A in that category. For prospective patients seeking a permanent residence as opposed to skilled nursing, long-term care grades are a key measure. Once we assessed the volume of care provided by aids and other staff, we next considered the facility's vaccination record. Unfortunately, we were not able to locate this facility's vaccination rates. Clearly, this facility is doing something right in this area as it was able to keep its residents out of the hospital. It had only 0 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low number.

Turning to our inspection category, this facility excelled in that area, which is based on the nursing home's recent inspections. In fact, we gave it an impressive grade of A for that category. This topped off this place's straight A report card. Inspection grades are tied to many pieces of information found on the a nursing home's recent inspection reports. Nursing homes that excel in this category have few deficiencies on those reports. Most importantly, these nursing homes generally do not have any severe deficiencies which are associated with endangerment of patients. Fortunately, although this nursing home had some minor dings on its government inspection report, it had no severe deficiencies. Severe deficiencies are labeled as categories G through L. This tells you CMS did not deem any of the deficiencies on this facility's report to pose an imminent threat to patient health or safety. Finally, this facility had no substantiated complaints this year from residents, which is an excellent sign.